Taiwan’s Wei Yu Engineering Company has sought licenses from Vietnam's central province of Ha Tinh to build a US$1 billion livestock farming and food processing complex and a $1.5 billion wharf.
State-backed Russia Direct Investment Fund announced plans on Wednesday to sign an agreement with Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group on joint investments in the construction of a $1 billion milk and dairy complex in the Ryazan region of Russia.
Leaders of Ha Nam provincial government agree to allocate 50 hectares of land in Hung Cong commune, Binh Luc district to Japanese company Seibu Nousan for the cultivation of Japonica rice for export to Japan.
Vietnamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group has invested in Cambodia so that it could have large areas for mechanized and automatic dairy farming.
Land plots for cultivation are now in hot demand by investors, who can make profits now and protect their assets in the long term.
Some of Vietnam top firms are carving out opportunities in its $37 billion agriculture and seafood sector and looking to expand overseas, helped by free trade pacts.
Around 50 villagers representing 90 families from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang province presented petitions to the U.S. and European Union embassies among others, accusing KDC International—a company run by Chea Keng, wife of Cambodia’s Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem—of encroaching on their land.
La Commission européenne dispose d’un pouvoir discrétionnaire pour enclencher la suspension des avantages commerciaux en cas d'accaparement de terres mais ne s'en sert pas, selon la FIDH
Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk will open a US$1 billion dairy in a Moscow suburb that will produces its own animal feed and breed its own cows
The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.
A series of private Vietnamese giants have expanded their investment in the agriculture sector, sinking hundreds of millions of dollars in cattle breeding and growing sugarcane and maize.
Interest in Vietnam's farmland is growing due to suitable soil and climate conditions, convenient location relative to markets like China and increasing demand for high-tech agricultural products.
